Ol’ Red Eyes is Back
My friend Chrissie Harper has begun posting art videos on her Patreon page, the latest of which is Let’s Draw Darkseid in 15 Minutes (Approx). It’s free to view, so enjoy! Read More »Ol’ Red Eyes is Back
Hazard Warning
I’m currently working my way through the first four volumes of Pacific Comics’ Johnny Hazard by Frank Robbins, which reprints the daily newspaper strip from its launch on 5 June 1944 (the morning before D-Day, in case anyone needs reminding). Read More »Hazard Warning
Bay City Roll-Up
In a previous post, I mentioned my regret that I have only a handful of Rockford Files movies left to watch. Well, I’m currently one episode away from completing a re-run of all four seasons of Starsky & Hutch, and that will leave me not so much mourning the series that was but more the one which might have been. Read More »Bay City Roll-Up
The Doctor is Out
A curious trend has developed in the Entertainment Industry, whereby entertainment is no longer prioritised and the chief elements of normal industry — productivity and profit — are cast aside in favour of short-term political goals. Own-goals, in most cases. Read More »The Doctor is Out
Closing the Rockford Files (1974-80)
It’s always sad when you’re about to bid farewell to an old friend, and I’m feeling that right now, as I finally catch up with the eight Rockford Files tv movies James Garner co-produced from 1994-99. I’ve viewed the first three so far, and for once, the spirit and flavour of a great tv series has been lovingly recaptured, arguably because virtually everyone involved in these extended adventures worked on the original show. Read More »Closing the Rockford Files (1974-80)
The Sound of Gunsmoke (1952-61)
CBS president William S Paley was apparently a fan both of detective fiction and the frontier tales of Louis L’Amour, so it’s not surprising he would be interested in a radio show which combined both genres. What does strike me as a little mystifying is that after producing two unaired pilots in 1949, with Rye Billsbury and Howard Culver both trying out for the role of gritty US marshal Matt Dillon, it took CBS another three years to finally hand the badge to William Conrad. Read More »The Sound of Gunsmoke (1952-61)
Star Trek Hits UK TV, 12 July 1969
Star Trek finally arrived on British television screens at 5:15pm on Saturday, 12 July 1969, five weeks after its final episode aired in the US, and I was lucky enough to catch the premiere episode, ‘Where No Man Has Gone Before’. To quote from that week’s Radio Times, which appropriately featured a cover publicising the imminent Apollo 11 lunar mission: “Today the moon – tomorrow the cosmos? The first is fact, the second is so far fiction. Nevertheless this new adventure series looks forward to a not-too-distant future when man will be exploring and colonising the worlds beyond us.” Read More »Star Trek Hits UK TV, 12 July 1969
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